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NRS 449A.557 - Conflict with other advance directive or do-not-resuscitate identification.

NV Rev Stat § 449A.557 (2019) (N/A)
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1. If a valid Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment form sets forth a declaration, direction or order which conflicts with a declaration, direction or order set forth in one or more of the other types of advance directives:

(a) The declaration, direction or order set forth in the document executed most recently is valid; and

(b) Any other declarations, directions or orders that do not conflict with a declaration, direction or order set forth in another document referenced in this subsection remain valid.

2. If a valid POLST form sets forth a declaration, direction or order to provide life-resuscitating treatment to a patient who also possesses a do-not-resuscitate identification, a provider of health care shall provide life-resuscitating treatment if the declaration, direction or order to provide life-resuscitating treatment set forth in the valid POLST form was executed more recently than the issuance of the do-not-resuscitate identification.

(Added to NRS by 2013, 2286; A 2017, 459, 1763) — (Substituted in revision for NRS 449.6946)

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